A/N: Lol…I don’t know what to say anymore.
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Chapter 5
Ino walked in the hospital and went directly to the trauma department to see Sakura. Last night, a fire burned an old building near the boundary of Konoha and there were 5 badly injured people, 15 were mildly injured and 2 deaths were recorded. So Sakura had been in the hospital since then and until now.
Ino’s detailed pregnancy test is today and she wants the pink haired kunoichi with her. She called the other woman’s mobile and Sakura informed her of what happened and where she was.
The blonde haired woman was nervous as she walked the hallway leading to the trauma department, she was so focus on getting to Sakura she didn’t notice Kiba following her. So she was startled when Kiba called her name.
“Ino,” Kiba walked beside the blonde woman
“Ki…Kiba! What are you doing here?” She asked.
The dog ninja smiled, “Today is your test right?” Ino nodded, “So I’m here to support you, you know my offer still stands, I still like for you to consider it.”
Ino’s reply was cut by a loud voice she suspects coming from Rock Lee, “What are you talking about? Ino decline you because it was obvious she was waiting for me!”
Ino’s forehead scrunched what the hell? I’m waiting for Rock Lee? Dream on!
And another voice joined the melee, “Oi-oi, I’m sure Ino haven’t seen my similarity to Sasuke yet, when she does, she’ll take me.” Sai said after pushing Lee away and settled himself beside the still stunned blonde kunoichi.
“NO! Ino needs me to father her baby!” Lee shouted
Ohhh…that didn’t come out right! Lee fathering my baby! Ew… Ino cringed inside.
So the triple debate started and soon punches were exchanged causing Ino’s eyes to widen further. “STOP IT! STOP IT!” Ino shouted trying to stop the three from embarrassing her more, Oh kami-sama!
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Sakura just finished the last in her list of patient and was ready to head out and met with Ino when upon walking out of the trauma department, she heard the blonde woman shouting at the hall and trying to stop something…she suspects to be a fight. But who are fighting? In her wanting to protect Ino, she ran fast towards the ongoing chaos just to find Sai, Lee and Kiba locked in a three way fight.
“STOP IT THIS INSTANCE!” Sakura shouted and three stopped and looked at Sakura whose face was red from anger, then their eyes locked on Ino who was cradling her head in one hand, “You three claimed to want to be the father of Ino’s baby, and yet here you three are fighting like 6 year old children!” she said, “And none of you take into consideration that you are fighting inside the hospital, the place where Hokage-sama is well respected!” Sakura shouted again then looked worriedly at Ino.
“Are you okay?” she asked Ino softly,
Ino smiled at her, “Yes, just a little headache but this will go away.” She looked at Sakura’s caring green eyes, “You got mad for me again Sakura, you’re making me think you care a lot for me.”
Sakura harrumphed, “I got mad because they are fighting inside the hospital. They should know better.”
Yeah…and you’re berating them for trying to win who’ll be the daddy or not…yeah…go on lie Sakura. Ino thought and she stood up from where she was seated, and Sakura was there at once to steady her.
“Easy,”
Ino looked at Sakura again, “Yeah…you don’t care.”
Sakura frowned and before she could move Ino out the Hokage came barreling to where they are. “Darn,” she said soft enough for only Ino to hear. The blonde chuunin looked to where Sakura turned her gaze and saw a scowling Tsunade.
“I got one hour of sleep, I haven’t drink any coffee yet, and I got an appointment with Ino in one hour so you three better explain to me why the trauma nurse called me because there’s a fight in MY hospital!” she shouted and then looked at the three cowering ninjas.
“Eh…” Sai still got the blank expression in his face but his eyes says otherwise, “We we’re showing Ino who’s the best daddy between us three.” He said before secretly exhaling breath he was keeping.
“All this…” she said as she looked at the broken chairs and scratched marks of the walls, “…is because you three were fighting over Yamanaka’s baby?” the Hokage’s left eye started twitching.
“Ohhhh, I don’t like her when her eye twitch like that.” Sakura whispered to a still stunned Ino
“Do we need to still be here to see what she would do to them? I think I’ve seen enough fight to last me a day.” Ino said softly to Sakura’s ear. Ino’s breathe tickling the shorter woman’s earlobe causing her to shiver and Ino to grin.
“Ah…ah…I don’t think we are needed here…ah…we could wait at the Sonogram room…Ino…” Sakura’s words were breathy in Ino’s ears.
“You think it’s alright we leave now without telling Ho-ka-ge-sama?” Again Ino said breathily.
Sakura can’t form any words to reply, instead she nodded her head.
“Come on then,” Ino said before letting go of Sakura’s hand and turning to go to the sonogram room. She looked back to see Sakura swayed and thanks to the triage, she prevented it and the pink haired woman hurriedly followed.
“YOU THREE GET OUT AND I’LL SEE WHAT YOU GOT!!!” The last the two heard from the Hokage.
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The sonographist let the two entered. Lucky for Ino, there was no one on the list for Sonogram so she was the only patient and doesn’t have to fall in line. But the sonographist was given strict instructions that once Ino comes, she would have to call a phlebotomist from the lab to get blood samples and called for an OB resident to do all the necessary work up for the blonde kunoichi before the Hokage meet her and do the ultrasound by herself. And since Sakura asked for a genetic analysis of the baby inside Ino, it will take them approximately one hour before Ino could undergo ultrasound. And with what happened at the hall, they all agreed that Ino would be waiting longer.
Sakura saw the nervous stance of Ino and can’t help it but to lay her hands on top of Ino’s, “Hey, you’ll be fine. I’ll be here with you the entire time they do all those test to you, and I’ll still be here when Tsunade-sama do your first ultrasound.” She smiled and it was returned though it wasn’t the usual smile Ino gave her. The blonde kunoichi was really nervous.
“What if it’s not a monster Sakura? What if the baby is normal?” Ino asked, her eyes far away.
“What about it? I thought you were just opting for abortion if this turned out to be a…you know monster like Sasuke.” She said trying to console the woman beside her.
Ino looked at her then she laughed softly.
“What?”
“We both are thinking of Sasuke as a monster. Isn’t that kind of weird when we were fighting over him once?”
Sakura realized it and she too laugh, “Well, we are only humans, we are allowed to make mistakes, and he’s one of the mistakes we made.” The two laughed again.
“I’m still afraid Sakura. I know I want to prove to the guys that I could do it on my own, but what if I can’t?”
Green eyes met blue, “It’s alright to be afraid, and I say you can never know unless you try right?”
Silence
“I don’t want others calling my baby bastard, or others calling it monster or…abomination. I don’t want this baby to suffer like Naruto Sakura, which would be cruel.” She said contritely.
Sakura thought of her friend Naruto and all the sufferings he endured just because the monster Kyuubi was sealed inside him, then she smiled, “Then you’re baby is lucky because your baby will have people like Naruto to guide it…plus I’m here, I’ll punch anyone into oblivion if I hear them say cruel things to your baby.”
Ino laughed softly once again, “You keep on doing that Sakura and I might think you would want to be my baby’s daddy as well.”
Sakura’s face reddened, “Ino it’s not what I…”
She was shushed by a finger across her lips, “I know, I was just pulling your legs.” Ino said but there was a hint of sadness in her voice.
The two was thrown into silence when 2 phlebotomists arrived with different colored test tubes. One greeted Sakura and Ino and explained to the two what the tubes are for and prepared Ino for the procedure. It only took the polite guy 5 minutes to get all the samples he needed and then he gave Ino a sterile cup for urinalysis. The female phlebotomist started writing her name on the tubes while the guy instructed Ino of what to do.
10 minutes later, the two went out and told them that the result will come out in 2 hours.
“Do you want to wait for the results?” Sakura asked glad the topic was diverted somewhere else.
“It’s just 2 hours, we’ll be waiting for Hokage-sama anyway so I don’t mind waiting for another hour or so more.” Ino said while pressing her antecubital area with dry cotton. “How long until the OB doctor comes here?”
Sakura stood, “I’ll call her again,”
Ino smiled at Sakura, “All doctors here are under you right?” she asked innocently
“Well technically speaking yeah, since it’s only me and Shizune who answers to the Hokage. All instructions made by the Hokage are passed to us and we are the one who delegates them to the other doctors.”
“So when a doctor makes a mistake, they answer to you or Shizune?”
“Well if it’s a case of malpractice, Shizune handles them. But simple problems like inability to perform certain minor procedures, they answer to me.”
Ino smiled, “So you’re one of the big boss?”
Sakura grinned, “You can think of it that way.” She said before turning and reaching for the telephone machine. She dial three numbers and was waiting to be answered, “So you must be earning a lot if you’re that high in the food chain.” Ino was inspecting her phlebotomy wound when she asked the question.
Sakura looked at Ino, her eyes mellow, “Well supposed to be, but that’s the problem with being the Hokage’s apprentice, we do the medical work for free and only gets compensated during missions. It’s double if I get to be the med nin and part of the team of the same mission.
“So why keep on working here?”
“I love my work, I love saving lives. I get giddy every time I see a patient look at me with awe when I solved her or his medical problems, my heart leaps for joy when they thank me for saving them. That’s more a compensation than money could ever do.”
Silence
“You should be a hero.” Ino said softly
Sakura was about to reply when the line was answered, “Where’s Chiyo? She should be down here 5 minutes ago?” she said a bit irate, “I see, can’t she delegate that work to Saki? Oh she has a competition, and Nodoka?” Sakura was frowning, “Remember to inform me about that, I’ll tell Tsunade-sama about that arrangement so that there’s equal rotation there at OB.” Sakura nodded her head once before she put down the phone and settled herself once again beside Ino.
“So?”
“Sorry about that, Chiyo-chan, the OB to do your intrauterine genetic analysis was pulled since the other two residents were on something important, she’ll be here in 10 minutes.”
“I see, it’s okay, I can wait.” Ino said after crossing her legs. “So what’s the perk in working here, aside from that giddy feeling?”
Sakura smiled, “Our time is not tied here unless there are special kinds of emergency. Med-nin kind of emergency.”
“I see, so you can leave anytime you want?”
“Well…if your work is done yes.” Sakura looked at the nurses that pass by the sonogram room, “Since we don’t get money from working here, we don’t have time in and time out, and we have our weekends free, unless of course something really, really bad happens.”
“True for Hokage-sama too?”
“Well her schedule is much open, she’s the Hokage she have lots of things on her shoulders so the hospital give her some slack.”
Less than 10 minutes pass and the OB resident came apologizing to Sakura, “It’s okay, let’s get this done and over with, shall we?” she said to Chiyo then looked at Ino. She held her hand to help Ino stand which the blonde woman accepts, she then lead the blonde to the examination table. Ino was instructed what to do and once Ino was comfortable in her position, Sakura stepped beside the bed and held Ino’s hand, “Just squeeze my hand when you’re nervous or when you feel pain okay. Remember I’m here.” She said smiling.
Ino’s heart was leaping from the sentiment but did not voice it out, instead she squeezed Sakura’s hand once to indicate she understand.
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One hour after the genetic analysis, The Hokage came and did Ino’s ultrasound. There was a problem at first when Ino learned that it has to be transvaginal, after some prodding and explanation, Ino relented so long as it was only the Hokage and her in the room.
After the ultrasound, the Hokage asked Ino to come back after an hour for the results, but instead of giving the result in the hospital, the Hokage opted for the two, Ino and Sakura to go to her office. One thing was confirmed during the test at once, Ino indeed is pregnant.
XXX
The two gave the Hokage another hour, and despite Sakura being tired, she kept a strong façade for Ino. So when the two hours they allotted run out, they went to the Hokage’s office together.
The two were asked to sit side by side, Tsunade, Shizune, Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba, Sai and Lee were also in the room.
“What are they doing here?” Ino asked
“They wanted to hear about your baby, they all know you are pregnant and I warned them about fights in front of you.” Tsunade said and sternly looked the three culprits in their eyes. “So to begin,” she looked at Ino, “You’re baby is normal, everything is fine, her vital signs are okay and her genetic analysis was normal.”
“Wait, her?” Ino asked again bewildered.
“Well genotypically speaking, you have a girl which I hope it will carry until term.” Tsunade said without batting an eyelash. “So it’s not the important part of my announcement,”
“What?” Sakura asked.
“It’s not Sasuke’s baby.”
-End Chapter 5-